Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches

Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches
Author: Maarten Keune
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136208038

In recent years, the concept of flexicurity has come to occupy a central place in political and academic debates regarding employment and social policy. It fosters a view in which the need for continuously increasing flexibility is the basic assumption, and the understanding of security increasingly moves from social protection to self-insurance or individual adaptability. Moreover, it rejects the traditional contradictions between flexibility and security, blending the two into a single notion and thus depoliticizing the relationships between capital and labour. This volume provides a critical discussion of the flexicurity concept, the theories upon which it is built and the ideas that it transmits about work, unemployment and social justice. It shows that flexicurity fosters the further individualization of social protection, an increase in precariousness and the further weakening of labour in relation to capital. The authors present a series of alternative theoretical, normative and policy approaches that provide due attention to the collective and political dimension of vulnerability and allow for the development of new societal projects based on alternative values and assumptions.

Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity

Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2007
Genre: Employment
ISBN:

Recoge: 1. The challenges and opportunities of globalisation and change - 2. An integrated flexicurity approach - 3. Flexicurity policies - 4. Flexicurity and social dialogue - 5. Developing common principles of flexicurity - 6. Flexicurity pathways - 7. The financial dimension of flexicurity - 8. Next steps: flexicurity and the Lisbon Strategy for growth and jobs - 9. Annex.

Converging Europe

Converging Europe
Author: Ipek Eren Vural
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1409407101

Evaluates the impact of European integration on social policy development since the launch and relaunch of the Lisbon strategy discussing the challenges posed by the still unfolding global economic crisis of 2007-2009.

Labour Markets & Employment

Labour Markets & Employment
Author: Berch Berberoğlu
Publisher: IJOPEC Publication
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 0956825648

As the outcome of the third international conference of political economy, the papers in this volume cover a range of topics, related to the conference theme of “labor markets and employment,” from globalization to migration, unionization to policy implementation, and women’s labor to child labor and ethnic issues in employment. Despite the wide range they come from, almost all papers draw attention to the radical changes in employment policies and practices around the world, and many of them point to global neoliberalism as the source of this transformation process, one way or another. We believe that revealing the dynamics of this process and putting forward possible alternative policies and practices across the world would provide signicant contribution to solving the problems of labor markets and employment, as the papers in this collection attempt to do.

Resocialising Europe in a Time of Crisis

Resocialising Europe in a Time of Crisis
Author: Nicola Countouris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107041740

A critical assessment of European social policy that suggests ways to improve coverage of fundamental labour standards in Europe.

Labour Markets at a Crossroads

Labour Markets at a Crossroads
Author: Henrik Lindberg
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2011-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1443836133

The European labour market models are at a crossroads. Almost all Western European countries have experienced a lack of job creation, productivity and growth for an extended period of time. There is a problem of unemployment overall, but most urgently for the young, for immigrants and for the disabled. There is a clear need for reform. This volume, Labour Markets at a Crossroads: Causes of Change, Challenges and Need to Reform, investigates a number of vital aspects of the European labour markets and the challenges they face. The chapters give new perspectives on how the different labour market models in Europe work, and what consequences they have. The contributing authors are academic scholars in economics, political science, sociology and economic history from a variety of European countries. The book is structured around three main themes: Flexicurity and Labour Market Dynamics Trade Unions and Industrial Action Wages and Bargaining A central conclusion made by the editors is that one of the main causes of the shortcomings of the European labour markets is the existence of what they call “corporative cartels.” Moreover, there are clear options for policy choice, both for legislators and the social partners themselves.

The Path to Higher Growth

The Path to Higher Growth
Author: Ms.Chie Aoyagi
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484366107

This paper argues that Japan’s excessive labor market duality can reduce Total Factor Productivity (TFP) due to a negative impact on non-regular workers’ effort and on firms’ incentives to train them. On the basis of cross-country empirical evidence, the paper proposes some reform options. In particular, our analysis suggests that reducing the difference in employment protection between regular and non-regular workers would substantially reduce labor market duality in Japan. One reform consistent with these findings is the introduction of a Single Open Ended Contract for all newly hired workers. This reform could be complemented by a shift towards a model that combines labor market flexibility and security (“flexicurity”) and by policies aimed at encouraging wage growth.

The Danish Welfare State

The Danish Welfare State
Author: Morten Frederiksen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137527315

The Danish Welfare State analyzes a broad range of areas, such as globalization, labor marked, family life, health and social exclusion, the book demonstrates that life in a modern welfare state is changing rapidly, creating both challenges and possibilities for future management.

Job Security and Flexibility

Job Security and Flexibility
Author: Emil Dinga
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031285093

This book examines the relationship between job security and job flexibility. Through an innovative conceptual approach, the concept of job flexicurity is presented to highlight the labour market dynamics between job flexibility and employee security. The dynamics of labour market mechanisms are placed within ideas of rigidity, security, flexibility, and plasticity to explore the interplay between different employee considerations. Particular attention is given to the Romanian labour market with an empirical case study that expands upon the ideas discussed. This book aims to analyse how job security and flexibility impact worker well-being and happiness. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics and the job market.

The European Union with(in) International Organisations

The European Union with(in) International Organisations
Author: Amandine Orsini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2016-03-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317032837

Since its creation, the European Union (EU) has been a participant in the activities of other International Organisations (IOs) or has been working together with them. Still, little information is available on what this long-term involvement with(in) IOs means for International Relations and European Studies. Why has the EU been involved with(in) IOs on such a long-term basis? How? With what impact? These three key research questions are addressed in this innovative volume, in a bid to explore the continuity of EU action with(in) IOs. While written by a diversity of authors (from European Studies or from International Relations, Europeans or non-Europeans) and from a diversity of disciplines (in particular Law and Political Science), each chapter of the volume elaborates on three common political concepts derived from three-fold questioning: commitment (for the why question), consistency (for the how question), and effects (for the question of impact). Consisting of a two part structure, the book is focussed in Part I on more general trends of the EU’s long-term participation with(in) IOs - with contributions by A. Wetzel, P. Debaere, F. De Ville, J. Orbie, B. Saenen and J. Verschaeve, and P. Nedergaard and M. D. Jensen - and in Part II on more precise case studies on labour standards, public services, flexicurity, human trafficking and security - with contributions by R. Kissack, A. Crespy, E. Xiarchogiannopoulou and D. Tsarouhas, B. Simmons and A. DiSilvestro, and N. Græger. Highly useful for students, academics and experts, this volume combines a clear and easy-to-use framework with new empirical data.